If the tape came this way, I wonder if this was a contestant (or contestant's family) who was videotaping this as they were watching and decided that the second half of the show was of no interest to them and stopped tape.
I'm sure there's videos out there that are similar of every other game show – to wit, they tape only the part where they or their family member was on, and the rest of the show they didn't care about.
Anyhow ... .
Brian
It's also part of the reason why first-run game show recordings from this era are rarely found for the sole purpose of taping them and then keeping them without taping it over with something else, particularly a movie. Outside of maybe Jeopardy!, they were about as ephemeral as department store catalogs or the daily newspaper unlike say taping Michael Keaton's Batman, which was more akin to a hardcover novel. I've had almost as much luck in finding game shows in those graveyard slots (Strike It Rich '86, Matchmaker, and even a Kennedy TPIR) than I have had with daytime shows. It can be frustrating on some shows like daytime Wheel where the master tapes are destroyed and only the clips of the contestant's interview, spinning the wheel, and calling letters are found. Still, its neat to see Super Saver again, I was thinking about it the other day regarding when Pluto gets to those shows.
This was obviously taped just before the summer taping break with Bob's comment before the third IUFB along with the Giant Price Tag design used since mid-Season 13 still being used.
